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Essay by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, September 1970
THE IMPORTANCE of Jimi Hendrix as a musician was sometimes forgotten behind the man's sexuality and the flamboyance of his act and appearance. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1998
Let’s get the paradoxes out of the way right up front: the blues was a musical space to which Jimi Hendrix would always return in ...
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Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages Audio, September 1970
In the last interview Hendrix did, a week before his death, he talks poignantly about his plans for the future, and looks back at his past.
File format: mp3 File size: 28.6mb Interview length: 31 minutes 17 seconds Sound quality: ****
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New To The Charts: Wild Jimi Hendrix
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, January 1967
THE MAN for whom the words "Wild One" were invented has hit us! Jimi Hendrix, 22, from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., courtesy of ex-Animal Chas Chandler ...
Jimi Hendrix at the Pop Think-In
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, January 1967
FREAK OUT: Well, whatever the word means to you, add a few musical notes to that. Each to his own. I think for a new ...
Jimi Hendrix, The Who: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, February 1967
Jimi Hendrix-Who battle at Saville ...
Walker Brothers/Cat Stevens/Engelbert Humperdinck/The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Finsbury Park Astoria
Live Review by Keith Altham, NME, April 1967
WE WERE WELL and truly blitzed with "mini-happenings" on the Walker Brothers’ tour opening night, at Finsbury Park Astoria last Friday, when Jimi Hendrix literally ...
Engelbert Humperdinck, The Walker Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens: Finsbury Park Astoria, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, April 1967
A show which proves pop still has something up its sleeve ...
Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix IS Out Of This World
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, April 1967
EVEN HIS EX-ANIMAL MANAGER NEEDS A SPLIT PERSONALITY! ...
Who Says Jimi Hendrix Can't Sing? (He Does!)
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, April 1967
JIMI HENDRIX can't sing! "Oo sez so?" outraged Hendrix fans will demand, at this startling statement. But before MM readers who dig the sounds of ...
Question Time with Jimi Hendrix
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, May 1967
THE REAL JIMI HENDRIX is now beginning to emerge from behind that skilfully placed publicity screen of early days when success was too fragile to ...
Monterey Pop Festival: Inside Looking Out
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: 'Frantic — Yet Somehow Casual'
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, August 1967
NO EXAGGERATION: The Jimi Hendrix Experience is the most exciting act I have yet seen in pop music. ...
Mitch Mitchell: 'We're Only Friendly Little Gnomes After All'
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1967
MITCH MITCHELL TALKS ABOUT HIS IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA ...
Hendrix Admits Lamp Is A Bit Smoky
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, September 1967
TIME TO TUCK the tiny tots up and put them safely abed with a nice Monkees' record! Why? Because "the electric bogeyman" is back in ...
Jimi Hendrix: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, October 1967
THE OTHER (WRESTLING) SIDE OF JIMI HENDRIX ...
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Arthur Brown, The Herd, Eire Apparent: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, October 1967
Hendrix and Brown triumph at the Saville Theatre... ...
Jimi Hendrix: A Shoddy Hendrix Record?
Report by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, January 1968
THE NEW Capitol LP, Got that Feeling: Jimi Hendrix Plays, Curtis Knight Sings, is not what it appears: Hendrix's latest release. The cover, with no ...
Interview by Michael Lydon, New York Times, March 1968
"Will he burn it tonight?" asked a neat blonde of her boyfriend, squashed in beside her on the packed floor of the Fillmore auditorium. "He ...
Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Brings Manager's New Club Roof Down!
Report by Keith Altham, NME, July 1968
JIMI HENDRIX literally brought the roof down on the opening night at his manager's club, Sergeant Peppers in Majorca by the simple expedient of ramming ...
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (Track)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, November 1968
rock at its sublimest level ...
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland (Polydor)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Guardian, The, November 1968
THERE ARE 19 naked ladies on the cover of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland (Polydor 613 008/9). Pictured inside, Jimi has a flicker of the lip-licking ...
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, February 1969
THE JIMI Hendrix Experience just spent six weeks in Los Angeles, ensconced in a rambling home in Benedict Canyon that was once occupied by the ...
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Circus, March 1969
PART TWO of my rap with Jimi Hendrix was concluded just before the elections in November. It is interesting to compare Hendrix's concepts of America ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, March 1969
The legend comes to life: Chris Welch catches Hendrix in action ...
Jimi Hendrix: I Don't Want to be a Clown Any More
Interview by Sheila Weller, Rolling Stone, November 1969
LIBERTY, NEW YORK – Records, film, press and gossip are collectively ambitious in creating the image of a rock superstar. With Jimi Hendrix – as ...
Jimi Hendrix: Band Of Gypsys (Track)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1970
ANY ALBUM from Jimi is such a rare event, one can only be pleased to see his name back on the new releases' rack. Here ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Final Interview
Interview by Keith Altham, interview transcript, September 1970
On the evening of Friday, September 11th, 1970, Jimi gave what was to be his final interview at his Cumberland hotel suite. The interview was ...
Man, Myth Or Magic? Jimi Hendrix is Back, and Happy, and Talking…
Interview by Norman Jopling, Music Now, September 1970
JIMI HENDRIX is staying at a West End hotel prior to his appearance at the Isle Of Wight Festival and his forthcoming European tour. ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1970
"JIMMY HENDRICKS," was the name scribbled on a notepad, when Chas Chandler rang the MM towards the end of 1966. "You must come and see ...
Jimi Hendrix: A Funeral In His Home Town
Report by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, October 1970
Seattle, Washington – It had been very hot and sunny the last few days in Seattle, most unusual for this time of year. But on ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, March 1971
"Well I'm sitting here in this womb/lookin' all around, I'm looking out my belly button window/and I see a whole world frowns, And I wonder ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, April 1971
MAYBE IT’S JUST my imagination, but the Jimi Hendrix section of my local record bin seems to have been growing at an astonishing pace lately. ...
James Taylor: On The Road With Sweet Baby James
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, May 1971
AMONG THE very few road managers who have put their heads, hearts, hands and feet into their work is Super-Scot Eric Barrett who hit the ...
Interview by Dick Meadows, Sounds, December 1971
I FIRST SAW the Jimi Hendrix Experience in a cramped Norfolk cellar club. Then the coloured guy with the frizzed-out hair was a nobody in ...
Isaac Hayes' Black Moses and other albums
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, 1972
TO CLAIM to have found a representative selection of black music on four records is patently absurd, but as a random cross-section of what’s approximately ...
Jimi Hendrix: Experience – Original Soundtrack/Isle Of Wight/Rainbow Bridge – Original Soundtrack
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, January 1972
A CONSIDERABLE amount of Hendrix material has surfaced over the last six months. In addition to these three albums, there’s a side each on Woodstock ...
Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix In The West
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, May 1972
I DON'T KNOW if there, is even anything to add to Jimi's legend. You can build it up or tear it down but it remains ...
Jimi Hendrix: Wild Man Of The Guitar
Retrospective by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1973
AS A ROCK HERO Jimi was one of the best, one of the greatest. Lying on his back playing flaming guitar with his teeth. Fanitastic! ...
Jimi Hendrix: How Rock Society Blew Another Mind
Essay by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, February 1974
WHEN JIMI HENDRIX flew into England for the first time, with Chas Chandler, they went straight from the airport to Zoot Money's house for an ...
Report by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, June 1974
JIMI HENDRIX FANS will be familiar with Curtis Knight’s name: he’s the man who found Hendrix down and out in New York in 1965, gave ...
Jimi Hendrix Makes A Crash Landing From The Phantom Zone
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, May 1975
LATE AT NIGHT, the cluster of rock neophytes bunched around the portals of Steve Paul's famous club, The Scene, would scatter like mice as Jimi ...
Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1975
On the fifth anniversary of his death (Sept. 18, 1970) a personal view of the Titan Axeman ...
Review by Miles, NME, October 1975
THE SLEEVE of this album, unhelpfully enough, doesn't give the history of these tracks, which are taken from the 500 plus hours of 16-track tape ...
Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning and For Real
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
AND THE GHOST walks once more. ...
Noel Redding: More Than Just Jimi Hendrix's Bass Player
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1976
IT IS INEVITABLE when dealing with such a visible force as Jimi Hendrix that persons who were close to him – and even played music ...
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Rock 100, 1977
THIS IS NEWARK, THE NIGHT AFTER MARTIN Luther King's assassination. Jimi Hendrix is playing the Symphony Theatre to a crowd of white, modishly dressed hippies. ...
Jim Marshall: The Man, The Amps; Together They Revolutionized Rock and Roll
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, February 1977
EASILY THE MOST revolutionary electric guitarist of the past decade was the late Jimi Hendrix. In many ways Jimi was the first electric guitarist in ...
The Final Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Memoir by Al Aronowitz, Circus, September 1977
I HAD TO talk Miles into going to Jimi's funeral with me. ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Voodoo Lives On
Essay by Dave Marsh, Musician, October 1980
HENDRIX SAW himself as a symbolic figure who contained in his bloodstream elements of all races. The goal of his performances was both racial and ...
Jimi Hendrix: Radio One (Rykodisc)
Review by David Sinclair, Q, April 1989
AHEAD OF NEXT year's 20th anniversary of his death there are already tell-tale signs of renewed interest in the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, still unquestionably ...
Review by David Sinclair, Q, May 1989
Are You ExperiencedAxis: Bold As LoveSmash HitsElectric LadylandBand Of GypsiesThe Cry Of LoveIsle Of WightHendrix In The WestWar HeroesLoose EndsCrash LandingMidnight LightningThe Singles AlbumKiss The ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, December 1989
THE RECENT spate of activity that has surrounded Jimi Hendrix – The South Bank Show, Charles Shaar Murray's musical biography Crosstown Traffic and now the ...
Book Review by Richard Williams, Q, December 1989
Charles Shaar Murray: Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix And Post-War Pop (Faber) ...
Jimi Hendrix: Bitter Experience
Book Review by Mat Snow, Q, October 1990
It was 20 years ago today...that Jimi Hendrix's brief but brilliant career came to an end. To mark the occasion, his former colleagues have published ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, November 1990
THERE ARE FEW people who will deny that the first time they lowered the needle on side one, track one of album one, Are You ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Sinclair, Q, June 1992
IF EVER A story has grown in the telling it is that of Jimi Hendrix. From a no-name sideman on the American chitlin circuit to ...
Jimi Hendrix: Calling Long Distance and The Ultimate Experience
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1992
THERE ARE RECKONED to have been only six Hendrix albums authorised by the artist himself, but he has been so ruthlessly repackaged, reassembled, re-issued and ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced?/ Axis: Bold As Love/ Electric Ladyland
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1993
THESE DIGITAL remasters are diamonds in the tottering junkpile of Hendrix re-releases and cutting-room floor detritus. Augmented by both sides of the first three singles ...
Jimi Hendrix Burns His Guitar For The First Time
Essay by Keith Altham, Q, July 1994
Date: March 31, 1967 Location: Astoria Theatre, LondonTHE BRIGHT LITTLE pyromaniac who told Jimi Hendrix to set fire to his guitar? Yup, that’s me. Thirty-three ...
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, October 1996
Eric Clapton, arms hanging limp at his side, stared in disbelief at the outlandishly garbed guitarslinger who had just joined the Cream for an impromptu ...
Jimi Hendrix: First Rays Of The New Rising Sun/Are You Experienced?/Electric Ladyland
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, June 1997
HAVE WE BEEN HERE BEFORE? WE CERTAINLY HAVE. In 1993, the dilapidated Hendrix CD catalogue was overhauled by Alan Douglas, then artistic director of the ...
Jimi Hendrix: South Saturn Delta
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, December 1997
IN WHICH the new management of Planet Hendrix takes its first steps into the marginal, semi-canonical hinterlands of the Great Man's recorded legacy and returns ...
Monterey International Pop Festival
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998
Four-CD box set of the 1967 Summer Of Love festival ...
Jimi Hendrix: Through Gypsy Eyes by Kathy Etchingham and Andrew Crofts (Orion)
Book Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 1998
JIMI HENDRIX flew into London for the first time in 1966, with a guitar and a bag containing a change of clothes, a jar of ...
Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1999
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? (MCA) HENDRIX AS superstar-in-waiting, UK-style. Rough, raw, crunchy, funky and designed for maximum impact, this ...
Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, November 1999
Your starter for ten: what do Jimi Hendrix and George Orwell have in common? ...
The Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 1)
Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, June 2000
IT WASN'T YOUR typical ribbon cutting. Gazillionaire Paul Allen smashed a Stratocaster made of unflavored green rock candy, designed especially for the occasion by glass ...
Jimi Hendrix: Black Secret Technology
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix wasn't just the original firestarter, all flash and dazzle. He was a scientist of sound. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Public Image Unlimited
Essay by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix the black radical. Hendrix the glam dandy. Hendrix the icon. Hendrix the man. ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Where Jimi Hendrix came from and where he would have gone next, had he survived, Hendrix expert Charles Shaar Murray talks to David Stubbs ...
Noel Redding Boxes His Own Experience
Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, July 2000
ASK NOEL REDDING what will be on the "new box set," and he won't offer any insight about the upcoming release that features dozens of ...
Jimi Hendrix: Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 2)
Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, July 2000
SHORTLY BEFORE BO Diddley began his set at the Experience Music Project celebration, Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding approached him with greetings from a ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 2000
LOUD, FLASHY, purple, wild, a danger to the nation's daughters. Face it, if personalities like JM Hendrix didn't exist, life would be rather boring. (And ...
Eight Little-Known Facts About Jimi Hendrix
Comment by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, November 2000
THE LINES, MUSICAL and otherwise, between Fact and (Science) Fiction tend to blur quite a lot whenever one dares speak of (a) Our Heroes, and/or ...
Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, 2001
In a rare and candid interview, the man behind the legendary amplifier talks to Joe Matera about the Marshall legacy. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Why Are You Experienced is Rock's Greatest Debut Album
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
'WE'LL WATCH THE SUN RISE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA...' ...
Jimi Hendrix: Family Feud Continues
Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, October 2002
THE RIGHTS TO Jimi Hendrix's music were returned to his family seven years ago, prompting fans to believe that the plundering of his recorded legacy ...
Interview by Mike Mettler, UniVibes, April 2003
WHO'S YOUR Daddy? Think Rolling Stone magazine invented rock criticism? Think again. ...
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
NOEL REDDING (57) was found dead at his home in Clonakity, Ireland on May 11. No cause of death has been reported. He ...
The Angels Did Sing: Noel Redding 1945-2003
Memoir by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
MY FIRST TRIP to the U.S. for the New Musical Express was with The Jimi Hendrix Experience for the Monterey Festival. So the sad death ...
He Don't Live Today (Sorry): My Noel Redding Experience
Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
LET ME TELL YOU: The very first "real" concert I was ever allowed to attend as a wee Canadian tyke just so happened to be ...
Seven Fender Stratocaster Models That Pay Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Special Feature by Tom Watson, Modern Guitars, November 2004
OVER THE 34 years since his untimely death in 1970 at the age of 27, the music of Jimi Hendrix has inspired legions of budding ...
The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock
Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005
Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...
Retrospective by Mat Snow, MOJO, October 2006
ON THE Friday night of September 23, 1966, former Animals bassist-turned-would-be-starmaker Chas Chandler, Animals road manager Terry McVay, and Jimmy (as he was then) Hendrix ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Monterey DVD, CD
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, October 2007
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Monterey for the first time ever on October 16th was released by Experience Hendrix/Geffen/Ume on DVD. The legendary U.S. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Remade in Britain
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, MOJO, Summer 2007
DATELINE: LONDON, January 29, 1967. It was, if such archaic terminology could still be employed, the ultimate Battle of the Bands, trans-Atlantic style. ...
Obituary by David Stubbs, Guardian Unlimited, November 2008
THE DEATH of drummer Mitch Mitchell, aged 61, marks an unwanted milestone in rock mortality. ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Film/DVD Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2009
CHAS CHANDLER, whose avuncular Geordie tones weave in and out of this absorbing "Making Of" doc, recalled the sessions for Electric Ladyland as "a long-drawn-out ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, September 2009
40 years on, Woodstock's epochal celebration of music, peace and unleashed hedonism is being marked with an unprecedented deluge of audio and visual releases. KRIS ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2010
JANIE HENDRIX, the CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, and Sony Music Entertainment's Legacy Recordings will launch their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on Tuesday, ...
Eddie Kramer on Jimi Hendrix's Valleys of Neptune
Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, eMusic.com, February 2010
EDDIE KRAMER'S credit on Valleys of Neptune is co-producer, along with Janie Hendrix (Jimi's sister) and John McDermott of Experience Hendrix, the company owned by ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, August 2010
Gered Mankowitz wasn't yet 21 when his pictures captured London's groovers at their hippest. As the portraitist prepares to put his Hendrix archive on show, ...
Jimi Hendrix: Brother From Another Planet
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2010
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970: It's all over the evening news that Jimi Hendrix has died at the age of 27. "JIMI HENDRIX DEATH RIDDLE" bellow ...
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